All essays tagged: Australian literature Review: James Leyon Vincent and Morton My Father and Other Animals by Sam Vincent Black Inc. 294pp Published August 2022 ISBN: 9781760640439 Growing Up in Country Australia by Rick Morton Black Inc. 302pp Published March 2022 ISBN: 9781760643065 City Mouse, Country Mouse In contrasting ways, Sam Vincent’s memoir My Father and Other Animals and Rick Morton’s anthology Growing Up in Country Australia complicate clichéd notions of rural life. Dec. 2022 • Australian literature Review: Catriona Menzies-Pikeon Gina Rushton The Most Important Job in the World by Gina Rushton Pan Macmillan 304pp Published 29 March 2022 ISBN: 9781760984069 Only Feelings Why has it taken me so long to write this review of The Most Important Job in the World? Whenever I… Dec. 2022 • Australian literature • Australian writers • Non-fiction Juncture Review: Patrick Allingtonon Grace Chan and Joan Fleming Every Version of You by Grace Chan Affirm Press 288pp Published July 2022 ISBN: 9781922806017 Song of Less by Joan Fleming Cordite Books 87pp Published January 2022 ISBN: 9780648917632 All Futures Are Possible These two speculative works offer visions of the future in which the earth is devastated. Each involves humans living disrupted, transformed lives – defying or redefining extinction, carrying on, muddling through. Dec. 2022 • Australian literature • Poetry • Speculative fiction • Juncture Review: Dan Dixonon the short story What Fear Was by Ben Walter Puncher and Wattmann 176pp Published November 2021 ISBN: 9781922571205 If You're Happy by Fiona Robertson UQP 288pp Published February 2022 ISBN: 9780702263460 The Teeth of a Slow Machine by Andrew Roff Wakefield Press 216pp Published March 2022 ISBN: 9781743058916 Have Fun I am looking for something to say about the short story as a category, something to distinguish it, and my mind alights on the word ‘fun’. Dec. 2022 • Australian literature • Fiction Review: Imogen Deweyon Simon Tedeschi Fugitive by Simon Tedeschi Upswell Publishing 120pp Published May 2022 ISBN: 9780645247961 ‘Tonality is a ghost’ What Fugitive does is to enact the sensation that emerges when you play or listen to music: a tactile excitement, a kinaesthetic sense of the sacred Nov. 2022 • Australian literature • Non-fiction Interview: Merve Emre Murnane’s Signposts Gerald Murnane’s meticulously self-curated ‘Chronological Archive’ – as distinct from his ‘Literary Archive’ and ‘Antipodean Archive’, both of which he likewise compiled… Nov. 2022 • Australian literature • Australian writers Review: Helen Koukoutsison Peter Skrzynecki Travelling Among the Stars by Peter Skrzynecki Vagabond Press 208pp Published May 2022 ISBN: 9781925735352 From the Porch Skrzynecki writes as a storyteller who recalls nature, family, and friends, as well as time and place, with narratological detail. Nov. 2022 • Australian literature • Migration • Poetry Juncture Review: Michael Farrellon David Stavanger Case Notes by David Stavanger UWAP 120 pp Published February 2020 ISBN: 9781760801199 Inside Pathetic Language By beginning Case Notes with poems about dogs, David Stavanger establishes from the beginning that his book is not purely the interrogation of the archival self, of self-research, that we might imagine from its title. Nov. 2022 • Australian literature • Poetry • Juncture Review: Ramona Kennedyon Chris Flynn Here be Leviathans by Chris Flynn UQP 240pp Published August 2022 ISBN: 9780702262777 What Was It Thinking? Reading expands the mind, and when you’ve got weak personal boundaries it can be as wild and dangerous an experience as living. Nov. 2022 • Australian literature • Fiction Review: Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyenon Siang Lu and Charles Yu The Whitewash by Siang Lu UQP 288pp Published August 2022 ISBN: 9780702265730 Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu Vintage Contemporaries 288pp Published November 2020 ISBN: 9780307948472 Yellow Invisibility In both books, the aspiration – to be the Asian actor who makes it big – is quickly diminished by the reality. It’s another version of the model minority myth, where even if you win, there’s an element of losing. Nov. 2022 • Asian literatures • Australian literature • Australian writers • Fiction Previous 1 2 3 4 … 49 Next